I've only had a few minutes to play with this, so expect more in-depth feedback shortly.

Downloaded the .jar, made it exec and ran it.Install dialog and installation went as expected, except for one thing.The JPortal shotcuts were not placed in the Games category (on the main menu), but was put in under Others.No biggie.

Running the game has proven a bit more painfull.The first attempts resulted in error messages in the terminal, and some Java processes hanging.

I killed the processes and resettet X Wins, and could start the game.Unfortunately it ran very slowly, and froze in my first game after I declined a mulligan. Again I had to kill the process.

As I said above, I only had little time to play with this. I'll try and provide better feedback, once Iøve had a chance to tinker some more under the hood.

Hahahaha, now you sound like my boss. He wants to get rid of Java, because he finds it faulty (we build enterprise systems in J2E ... I test them).

There can be a variety of reasons why JPortal performs so poorly on my system:> hardware limitations (Java does have bad memory handling *cough* garbage collector)> The JRE might need some tweaking (eg. ln -s /home/myuser/java1.6 /usr/bin/java seem to fix a lot of problems for other Ubuntu users)> Maybe installing a JDK instead of just the runtime libs will help